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Aerial photo of Neu-Isenburg suburban neighborhood
Aerial photo of Neu-Isenburg suburban neighborhood · Samra Bergkemper-Mujic, CC BY 3.0
Frankfurter Straße 184, 1, Neu-Isenburg, Landkreis Offenbach
Frankfurter Straße 184, 1, Neu-Isenburg, Landkreis Offenbach · GeorgDerReisende, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Neu-isenburg gueterbahnhof · Frank Murmann, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Neu-Isenburg Stadt Alter Bahnhof 20070914 · Rudolf Stricker, Public domain
Bushaltestelle Isenburgzentrum West, 1, Neu-Isenburg, Landkreis Offenbach
Bushaltestelle Isenburgzentrum West, 1, Neu-Isenburg, Landkreis Offenbach · GeorgDerReisende, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Neu-Isenburg, Germany

Neu-Isenburg is a town of 35,293 people in Hesse, Germany.

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Population35,293 GeoNames
RegionHesse
Elevation130 m 427 ft
Time zoneEurope/Berlin
Land area24.3 km² 1,453 people per km²
Nearest airportFrankfurt Airport (FRA) 11 km
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Why visit Neu-Isenburg

Townapedia lists 127 museums and landmarks, 68 parks and trails, 201 places to eat, 20 places to stay and 17 attractions in and around town.

Highlights include Autokino Gravenbruch, Alte Brücke, Eintracht Frankfurt Museum and Haus zum Löwen.

About Neu-Isenburg

Neu-Isenburg (German pronunciation: [nɔʏˈʔiːzn̩bʊʁk] , lit. 'New Isenburg') is a town in Germany, located in the Offenbach district of Hesse. It is part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area and has a population of 38,204 (2020). The town is known nowadays mainly for its regionally used shopping centre, the Isenburg-Zentrum (IZ), the Hugenottenhalle, the Hotel Kempinski Frankfurt, the Autokino Gravenbruch (the oldest drive-in cinema in Europe), the Sportpark, the Waldschwimmbad (swimming pool) and its location near Frankfurt Airport.

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Things to do17

Autokino Gravenbruch

Cinema and theater · 3.8 km

Außenliegend Autokino, Neu-Isenburg

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Alte Brücke

Bridge · 6.6 km

"Old Bridge" in Frankfurt, Germany

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Eiserner Steg

Bridge · 6.7 km

Footbridge over the Main in Frankfurt

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Goethe Tower

Monument and historic site · 4.7 km

Observation tower in Frankfurt, Germany

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Oper Frankfurt

Cinema and theater · 6.8 km

Opera company in Frankfurt am Main

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Schauspiel Frankfurt

Cinema and theater · 6.8 km

Municipal theatre in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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The English Theatre Frankfurt

Cinema and theater · 7.0 km

English-speaking theatre in Frankfurt am Main

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Monte Scherbelino

Scenic view · 3.1 km

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Comoedienhaus

Cinema and theater · 7.4 km

Former theatre in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Waldladen

Farm and orchard · 2.6 km

Jan-Sep Tu,Th 15:00-18:00;Oct-Dec Tu,Th 15:00-18:00,Sa[1,3] 09:00-13:00

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Victoria-Theater

Cinema and theater · 3.2 km

9a Offenbacher Straße, Dreieich

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Cineplace

Cinema and theater

"bei Kinovorstellungen, idR dienstags 16:30 Uhr und 19:30 Uhr"

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Museums and landmarks127

Eintracht Frankfurt Museum

Museum · 4.1 km

362 Mörfelder Landstraße, Frankfurt am Main

Tu-Su 10:00-18:00

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Haus zum Löwen

Museum · 0.9 km

24 Löwengasse, Neu-Isenburg

Fr 17:00-20:00; Sa,Su,PH 11:00-17:00

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Caricatura Museum Frankfurt

Museum · 6.9 km

Museum for comic art

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Deutsches Romantik-Museum

Museum · 7.1 km

Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Frankfurter Judengasse

Museum · 7.3 km

Historical Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt, Germany

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Frankfurter Kunstverein

Museum · 7.0 km

Voluntary association in Germany

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Historical Museum Frankfurt

Museum · 6.9 km

Museum in Germany

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Jewish Museum Frankfurt

Museum · 6.7 km

Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany dedicated to Jewish history and culture

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Liebieghaus

Museum · 6.2 km

Sculpture museum in Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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Memorial at the Frankfurt Grossmarkthalle

Monument and historic site · 6.9 km

Holocaust memorial in Frankfurt, Germany

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Galerie Tiberius

Museum · 0.6 km

Tu,Th,Fr 11:05-18:05; We,Sa 11:05-14:05; "nach Vereinbarung"

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Informationszentrum Stadtwaldhaus / Fasanerie

Museum · 2.6 km

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Parks, trails and playgrounds68

Deutsche Bank Park

Sports field and stadium · 4.1 km

Seit 1. Juli 2020 heißt die Frankfurter WM-Arena Deutsche Bank Park - und erinnert damit wieder an die Ursprünge des Sportpark...

362 Mörfelder Landstraße, Frankfurt am Main

Mo-Su 10:00-17:00

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Frankfurt City Forest

Park · 3.6 km

Urban forest of Frankfurt, Germany

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Frankfurt Zoological Garden

Park · 7.5 km

Zoo in Frankfurt, Germany

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Nizza

Park · 6.5 km

Park in Frankfurt, Germany

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Wallanlagen

Park · 6.7 km

Park in Frankfurt am Main

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Bruch von Gravenbruch

Hiking and trails · 3.0 km

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Gehspitzweiher bei Neu-Isenburg

Hiking and trails · 3.4 km

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Herrnröther- und Bornwaldswiesen von Sprendlingen

Hiking and trails · 3.2 km

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Roly Poly Spielhaus

Playground · 3.4 km

56 Hauptstraße, Dreieich

Su-Th 10:00-18:00; Fr-Sa 10:00-19:00

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Dreieichhörnchen

Playground · 2.4 km

25 Reuterpfad, Dreieich

Apr-Sep: Tu-Sa 14:00-18:00; Oct-Mar: Tu-Fr 14:00-18:00

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Waldschwimmbad (Freibad)

Sports field and stadium · 1.3 km

May 01-Sep 15 Mo-Su 08:00-20:00

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Restaurants and cafes201

Herrnbrod & Ständecke

Restaurant · German · 3.5 km

29 Hauptstraße, Dreieich

Mo-Fr 11:00-14:00,17:00-23:00; Sa off; Su 17:00-23:00; PH off

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Anka

Cafe · Breakfast, Brunch, Coffee Shop · 3.4 km

43 Hauptstraße, Dreieich

Mo-Th 09:30-19:00; Fr-Su 09:30-20:00

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BAB Marrakesch

Restaurant · Moroccan · 1.8 km

229 Bahnhofstraße, Neu-Isenburg

Mo-Th 12:00-15:00,17:00-22:00; Fr,Sa 15:00-22:00; Su,PH 14:00-22:00

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Casa Grande

Restaurant · International · 2.8 km

50 Fichtestraße, Dreieich

Mo-Fr 11:30-14:30, 17:00-23:00; Sa 17:00-23:00; Su 11:30-23:00

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Frankfurter Haus

Restaurant · German · 1.2 km

741 Darmstädter Landstraße, Neu-Isenburg

Mo-Su 12:00-24:00

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Apfelwein Föhl

Restaurant · German, Regional · 0.9 km

1 Marktplatz, Neu-Isenburg

Mo-Sa 17:00-22:30; PH,Su 12:30-22:00

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Cafe Vielfalt

Cafe · Breakfast, Cake · 2.1 km

1 Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße, Dreieich

Tu-Fr 10:00-17:00; Su 10:30-17:00

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Café Ernst

Cafe · Breakfast, Cake · 1.2 km

Mo-Su 08:00-18:00; Dec 31 08:00-13:00; Dec 24-26 off; PH off

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DesiLicious

Restaurant · Indian · 4.1 km

28 Hainer Chaussee, Dreieich

Mo-Fr 11:00-14:30,17:00-22:00; Sa 17:00-22:00; Su 11:00-22:00

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El Sombrero

Restaurant · Mexican

4 (Shop 58) Hermesstraße, Neu-Isenburg

Mo-Su 12:00-24:00

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Endstation

Restaurant · Mexican, Thai · 3.8 km

2 Buchschlager Allee, Dreieich

Mo-Sa 17:00-22:00; Su 13:00-21:00

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Eva - Restaurant, Pizzeria, Café

Restaurant · Pizza, Italian, Coffee Shop · 2.3 km

4 Dreieich Plaza, Dreieich

Mo-Fr 07:30-22:00, Sa 17:00-24:00

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History

Neu-Isenburg was founded on 24 July 1699 as a town of exiles by Huguenots, French Protestants who had had to flee their homeland after the Edict of Nantes was revoked. Their new landlord, Count Johann Philipp von Isenburg-Offenbach, guaranteed them safety, the free use of the French language and religious freedom.

He gave them leave to settle in the Wildbann Dreieich, an old royal hunting forest, in the place where in the Middle Ages the pilgrimage chapel Zum Heiligen Kreuz ("To the Holy Cross") once stood. By way of thanks to the Count, the town was named Neu-Isenburg after him. The town plan was laid out by Andreas Loeber in a right-angled grid pattern. From corners ran diagonal streets to the marketplace. Also, the middles of the outer sides were linked by streets to the square marketplace. This township survives today in the streets of Kronengasse, Pfarrgasse, Löwengasse and Hirtengasse.

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Neu-Isenburg was one of the planned towns of the 17th and 18th centuries. The settlers at first worked at farming, but later turned back to the handicraft trades that they had learnt, such as the stocking knitter's craft, thereby laying the groundwork for Neu-Isenburg's economic development. The surrounding communities eyed the French settlers with great mistrust and called the town welsches Dorf (the German word welsch refers to peoples who speak Romance languages, especially French; it is cognate with the English word Welsh, but does not have the same meaning).

On 20 May 1700 – a Thursday – the clergyman Isaac Bermond held the first church services under an old oak in the middle of the church square.

About 1701, the Forsthaus was built (today an inn called Frankfurter Haus) by the city of Frankfurt am Main at the city limits with Neu-Isenburg. The first French Reformed church was built of wood between 1702 and 1706. The foundation stone was laid on Ascension Day 1702. Likewise in 1702, the Town Hall was built at the marketplace, and the Haus zum Löwen was mentioned for the first time. This was used until 1918 as an inn called Au Lion d'Or ("At the Golden Lion"), and today it houses the local history museum.

The first school followed in 1704, and in 1705 the Bansamühle (mill). The wooden church was replaced between 1773 and 1775 with a stone building. In 1781, the first German-language school was built.

After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the County of Ysenburg (Sovereign Principality of Isenburg after 1806), together with the Oberamt of Offenbach and its member municipalities, passed to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In 1828, the Prussian-Hessian Customs Union built a customs house (Frankfurter Straße 10) as its main customs office on the border with what was then the Free City of Frankfurt.

Despite considerable reservations, German families, too, were moving into the town beginning in the 18th century, leading to the church's having to hold services alternately in German and French as of 1761, much to the French-speaking population's chagrin. In the end, German was confirmed as the town's official language in 1829.

In 1846, the Main-Neckar railway near Neu-Isenburg was completed, but the town did not get its own railway station until 1852.

Other events in Neu-Isenburg's history, in brief, are as follows:

1860 The firm Müller markets Frankfurter Würstchen (sausages, but not the kind often called "Frankfurters" in the English-speaking world) for the first time.

1889 The Waldbahn, a steam tramway, began running to Frankfurt.

April 1896 The Höhere Bürgerschule (now Goetheschule) took on its task as Neu-Isenburg's first secondary school.

1899 On the occasion of its bicentenary, Neu-Isenburg received a coat of arms.

1907 The Jewish Women's Federation's home for Jewish girls was founded by Bertha Pappenheim.

23 October 1911 Consecration of the first Catholic church, St. Josef.

1929 The Waldbahn was electrified and incorporated into the Frankfurt tram network

Between 1943 and 1945 the town suffered heavy damage from air raids.

1945 A broad area in the town's west had to be evacuated for the Occupying Power

1959 Building work began on Gravenbruch, a residential neighbourhood, after the woods there had been cleared.

1960 The Autokino Gravenbruch, Europe's first drive-in cinema, was opened.

1 January 1977 Amalgamation of the formerly self-administering community of Zeppelinheim, which itself had been cobbled together from parts of the self-administering municipal areas of Mitteldick and Gundwald (the latter in Groß-Gerau district) and parts of the community of Kelsterbach on 1 January 1938.

In 1834, Neu-Isenburg had only 1,762 inhabitants. By 1939, there were 15,081. After Zeppelinheim was amalgamated and Gravenbruch had been built, the population reached 35,000 by 1983.

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Geography

Neu-Isenburg borders in the west and north on the district-free city of Frankfurt am Main, in the east on the district-free city of Offenbach and in the south on the towns of Dreieich, Langen and Mörfelden-Walldorf (Groß-Gerau district).

In 1959, building work began on the Wohnstadt im Grünen ("Living Town in the Green"), as it was marketed. This was Gravenbruch. Almost 7,000 people found a new home in this satellite town between the main town and Heusenstamm, lying in the woods. Owing to the great number of young families that moved there, this constituent community was known as the town with Europe's densest population of children. It is also well known for the Kempinski-Hotel and the drive-in cinema.

With the amalgamation of the formerly self-administering community of Zeppelinheim in the course of municipal reform in 1977, Neu-Isenburg also stretched farther westwards. Here is found the Zeppelinmuseum.

Economy

Given its proximity to the trade fair city of Frankfurt and to Frankfurt Airport, Neu-Isenburg is a common location for businesses in various sectors. One of the major businesses that are found here are hotels, which see more than 230,000 overnight stays every year, the highest figure in the Offenbach district.

Over time, the town has converted itself from a location for producing businesses to a service-industry-based location and is among the biggest high-technology locations in the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region.

Harley-Davidson GmbH (Managing Germany, Austria and Switzerland)

G. A. Müller GmbH (meat products factory, oldest manufacturer of the original Frankfurter Würstchen)

Hans Wirth GmbH & Co. KG (meat products factory, manufacturer of the original Frankfurter Würstchen)

Around the 1980s and 1990s the airline Condor was headquartered in Neu-Isenburg.

The town is close to several routes of the German Autobahn network (A 3, A 5, A 661).

Arts and culture

Neu-Isenburg is known far beyond its limits for the various events staged at the Hugenottenhalle. In this multipurpose hall with a variable capacity of up to 2,000 people, rock concerts are held, guest theatrical performances are given and dancing and music are performed. Citizens are offered a comprehensive cultural programme covering every genre.

Neu-Isenburg is especially well known in the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region for its yearly summertime Open-Doors-Festival (formerly Musikspektakel). For three days, some 40 different bands and artists from all genres of music play. The free event is attended by some 15,000 guests and is held on several different stages throughout the town area.

The parade through town on Shrove Monday (Rosenmontag) — sometimes called Lumpenmontag in Neu-Isenburg — enjoys great popularity.

Friedrich-Fröbel-Schule, school for learning help and speech therapy

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Notable people from Neu-Isenburg

Born in Neu-Isenburg, according to Wikidata (CC0). Each name links to its Wikipedia article.

Where to stay20

Churches and places of worship36

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Shopping50

Gas and EV charging14

Schools, colleges and libraries29

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Healthcare12

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